Italian Neighbors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Italian Neighbors write by Tim Parks. This book was released on 2015-01-07. Italian Neighbors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: A deliciously entertaining account of expatriate life in a small village just outside Verona, Italy. Tim Parks is anything but a gentleman in Verona. So after ten years of living with his Italian wife, Rita, in a typical provincial Italian neighborhood, the novelist found that he had inadvertently collected a gallery full of splendid characters. In this wittily observed account, Parks introduces readers to his home town, with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between. Via Colombare, the village’s main street, offers an exemplary hodgepodge of all that is new and old in the bel paese, a point of collision between invading suburbia and diehard peasant tradition. It is a world of creeping vines, stuccoed walls, shotguns, security cameras, hypochondria, and expensive sports cars. More than a mere travelogue, Italian Neighbors is a vivid portrait of the real Italy and a compelling story of how even the most foreign people and places gradually assume the familiarity of home. “One of the most delightful travelogues imaginable . . . so vivid, so packed with delectable details.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
Italian Neighbors
Italian Neighbors - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Italian Neighbors write by Tim Parks. This book was released on 2003. Italian Neighbors available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this seductive account of an Italian neighborhood with a statue of the Virgin at one end of the street, a derelict bottle factory at the other, and a wealth of exotic flora and fauna in between, novelist Tim Parks celebrates ten years of living with his wife in Verona, Italy. More than a travel book, this is a tale of how the most curious people and places gradually assume the familiarity of home, a work that manages to be both a portrait and an invitation for everyone who has ever dreamed about Italy.--From publisher description.
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo
Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo write by Tim Parks. This book was released on 2014-05-05. Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The bestselling author of "Italian Neighbors" returns with a wry and revealing portrait of Italian life--by riding its trains.
An Italian Education
An Italian Education - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Italian Education write by Tim Parks. This book was released on 2015-01-07. An Italian Education available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A “marvelous” Mediterranean memoir of an expatriate father raising his children in Italy—from the author of Italian Neighbors (The Washington Post). Tim Parks offers another lively firsthand account of Italian society and culture—this time focusing on all the little things that turn an ordinary newborn infant into a true Italian. When British-born Tim Parks heard a mother at the beach in Pescara shout to her son, “Alberto, don’t sweat! No you can’t go in the sea till eleven, it’s still too cold, go and see your cousin in row three number fifty-two,” he was inspired to write about parenting in Italy—which he was doing himself at the time after adopting the country as his own. In this humorous memoir, Parks offers an enchanting portrait of Italian childhood that shifts from comedy to despair in the time it takes to sing a lullaby. The result is “a wry, thoughtful, and often hilarious book . . . a parable of how our children, no matter what, are other than ourselves” (The New Yorker). “Glimpses of Italy that are fond, critical, pithy and penetrating.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Immigrant World of Ybor City
Immigrant World of Ybor City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Immigrant World of Ybor City write by Gary R. Mormino . This book was released on 2018-02-20. Immigrant World of Ybor City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida's long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists' sketches of the area in prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.
